[OTR-dev] Pidgin plugin development and GUI look

[hcat at gmx.net]

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> One of the issues identified in the user study is that people couldn't
> figure out how to get to the "Authenticate buddy" menu item.  With the
> button, you needed to right-click on the button to bring up the context
> menu, which stymied a number of people.  They suggested to move it to a
> menu (for which (left-)clicking is the obvious way to pull down a menu),
> so that's what we did.

Why the right click? (Left-)Clicking the "OTR: <status>" like Patrik linked would just display a small menu just like the formatting and insert "toolbar buttons" do.
Well, the OTR menu item could even stay in the menu bar (minus the icon, which looks a bit alien there anyway) and the "OTR: <status>" could just display the status down in the toolbar.